Box OneCloud Hits Android as Google Tablet Emerges

Is Box's OneCloud the platform to watch with Android on board? Image: Courtesy of Box

Dubbing its launch “another important step in the future of productivity in the post-PC era,” Box today introduced its OneCloud service for Android, the world’s leading mobile platform.

Box touted OneCloud’s 50 integrations on Apple’s iOS, with Platform VP Chris Yeh writing in a blog post: “Our app partners have their integrations exposed to over 120,000 businesses running Box, with the opportunity for new revenue and new users.”

“We launched first on iOS and received an overwhelming response from the community to quickly follow-up with Android support. We heard you loud and clear…,” Yeh said. “Today, we’re extremely excited to expand Box OneCloud to Android.”

Yeh outlined OneCloud for Android:

App Gallery: shows users what apps work with Box and is contextually sensitive to show the best apps for file editing and creation.

Round-trip integrations: provides a seamless way for you to open Box files in partner apps and save them back to Box.

For more general background on OneCloud, see Box’s product page and the video below.

Box also created am Android-specific software development kit (SDK) for OneCloud that it said allows developers to integrate with the Box Android app “for seamless round-trip file editing and management.” The SDK allows developers to tap native file management capabilities and encrypt in-transit files. And Yeh said Box was also building upon Android’s native file intent system.

“Finding the right partners and engineering the right technology is absolutely critical if we want to build the world’s best cloud content and collaboration platform,” Yeh said. “Today’s launch is another important step in the future of productivity in the post-PC era.”

Box explains OneCloud:

Have your say: With Android on board — as well as Google said to be getting into the tablet business with $199 Kindle Fire rival, the Nexus 7 ahead of Google I/O 2012 this week — is Box’s OneCloud one platform you will no longer avoid? Is OneCloud’s architecture the way forward?